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August 10, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) Two days before a task force that included Chicago police and federal drug agents moved to make arrests in a yearlong drug investigation, a wiretap picked up a stunning disclosure during a phone call to a target of the probe. “We gotta homie that works on the task force,” the caller told the…

July 11, 2017

Three Chicago Police officers on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges in an alleged conspiracy to derail the investigation of a fellow officer who shot Laquan McDonald. Officers Joseph Walsh, David March and Thomas Gaffney made their first court appearances Monday since being indicted last month on charges stemming from the 2014 death of 17-year-old…

July 5, 2017

It has been a violent holiday weekend in Chicago, and police worked on ways to crack down on the violence. It started overnight with police raids. Police say they selected the targets of those raids carefully. They’re who police say are in some cases leaders of gangs or people delegated to doing the shooting. The…

June 28, 2017

The Chicago police investigation of the 2014 shooting death of Laquan McDonald unfolded like hundreds of others had before it, with an officer who claimed he fired in fear of his life, fellow cops who backed up his story and supervisors who quickly signed off on the case as a justifiable homicide. The routine way…

May 31, 2017

The FBI and Chicago Police Department are working together to fight crime in our city and they’ve made a video to illustrate the new campaign. The FBI wants Chicago to know it’s in the business of combating street crime. “The Chicago Police Department is doing a very good job, but they’re overwhelmed with the level…

May 27, 2017

Starting Friday night, there will be an extra 1300 Chicago police officers on duty. That’s 500 more than were on the streets last Memorial Day weekend when 71 people were shot, 6 fatally. In 2015 57 people were shot, 12 killed. Earlier Friday city leaders, law enforcement and community members are hoping for peace all…

May 18, 2017

FOX 32 NEWS, The Chicago Police Department, struggling to regain public trust in the wake of a video of a white officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times, on Wednesday released a new use of force policy that requires officers undergo de-escalation training and imposes stricter rules on when they can fire their weapons…

May 16, 2017

The Chicago Police SWAT team is warning police brass that starting next week, they’ll no longer take their gear home with them, and emergency response times will likely suffer. The SWAT officers say at the end of their shifts, they’ll drop their gear at a West Side police facility, which they would have to return…

May 12, 2017

As Chicago endured a devastating surge in gun violence last summer, scores of people with long rap sheets stood atop the Chicago Police Department’s secret watch list, newly obtained records show. One of the men had been arrested 12 times for violent crimes, all before turning 20. He’d also been charged with illegal gun possession.…

May 8, 2017

Chicago police issued a bulletin Monday warning its officers about gangs armed with high-powered weapons, after three people were shot to death over the weekend – including two attending a memorial for the earlier victim. Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the three people who were killed in the shootings Sunday were all members of the…

May 5, 2017

Civil rights advocates on Thursday said a memo by a Chicago police commander appeared to set illegal quotas for cops to stop suspected gang members for traffic violations. Anthony Escamilla, commander of the Grand Central police district, launched a mission to address “an uptick in violence between the Spanish Cobras and Latin Brothers,” according to…

May 4, 2017

Watch for four Chicago aldermen — all former cops — to pull the trigger so more police officers can use military-style assault rifles since the shooting of two on-duty Deering District police officers on Tuesday night. Sneed has learned the cadre of aldermen not only want more Chicago Police to be able to use so-called…

April 21, 2017

In an effort to be more accessible to city residents and to use newer technology, the Chicago Police Department is introducing another digital platform for citizens to report criminal activity. The website — cpdtip.com — is designed to be more user-friendly than its predecessor, TXT2TIP. Unlike TXT2TIP, the new site will run smoothly on mobile…

April 19, 2017

An off duty Chicago police officer was lured to a quiet neighborhood on the Southwest Side and killed by his girlfriend’s teenage brother in a botched plan to steal his gun collection, Cook County prosecutors alleged Tuesday. The slaying of Chicago police Officer David Blake in 2010 was a “cold-blooded execution,” prosecutors said during opening…

April 13, 2017

Chicago Police officers Wednesday elected a new union president who has vowed “to fight for officers” amid a push by city officials to reform the Chicago Police Department. Kevin Graham won 56 percent of the vote in a runoff against Dean Angelo Sr., who led the Fraternal Order of Police Local 7 for three years…

April 7, 2017

A research scientist who helped lead the nationwide effort to reform policing during the Obama Administration was named Thursday to oversee investigations of police misconduct in Chicago. Laura Kunard, a senior research scientist for justice programs for CNA, a non-profit research organization in Arlington, Virginia, was picked by City Inspector General Joe Ferguson to be…

April 4, 2017

The Chicago Police Department plans to forward with reforms, even after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions took aim at an agreement reached under the Obama administration. A memo from Sessions said it is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies. The problem is, Chicago police have been waiting for…

April 4, 2017

Chicago police officers were involved in a fatal car crash on the city’s South Side overnight. The crash happened around 10:40 p.m. Monday as officers were responding to a call of gunshots fired in the Roseland neighborhood. The tactical officers were heading northbound on Michigan Avenue with their emergency equipment activated, when a 1998 Honda…

March 29, 2017

President Donald Trump met with police union leaders from across the country on Tuesday, including Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President Dean Angelo. With more than 700 murders last year, Trump has called Chicago’s violence “out of control.” Trump opened a “listening session” in Washington, D.C., by thanking the FOP for supporting him in the…

March 25, 2017

A study of the Chicago Police Department’s stop-and-frisk procedures released Friday revealed a dramatic decrease in the number of stops since an American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois lawsuit, but found that officers were still targeting racial minorities. The report by former U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys, the first one issued under an agreement the…